- Mona Washbourne
-
Mona Washbourne (born 27 November 1903, Birmingham - died 15 November 1988, London) was an English actress of stage, film and television.
Mona Washbourne began her entertaining career training as a concert pianist. While performing on stage in the early 1920s, she found that she liked acting and became an actress.[citation needed] In 1948, after numerous stage musical performances, Washbourne began appearing in films. Her film credits include Billy Liar (1963) and The Collector (1965). She played Mrs. Pearce in 1964's My Fair Lady, the stern and caustic Mrs. Bramson in the remake of Night Must Fall, and the Matron in the 1968 film, If.....
She appeared at both the Royal Court Theatre in London and on Broadway in 1970 in David Storey's Home. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play. She won the 1981 New York Film Critics Circle Awards for Best Supporting Actress in Stevie.
In 1981, Mona Washbourne appeared in Granada Television's adaptation of Brideshead Revisited in the role of Nanny Hawkins.
Family
Her husband Basil Dignam and brother-in-law Mark Dignam, were stage and film actors.
Her sister Katherine Washbourne was a noted violinist with the BBC Symphony orchestra under Sir Adrian Boult.
One of her grand nephews is Richard Washbourne of InteractiveTV Today [itvt] in San Francisco.
Selected filmography
- The Winslow Boy (1948)
- Once Upon a Dream (1949)
- Maytime in Mayfair (1949)
- The Huggetts Abroad (1949)
- Adam and Evelyne (1949)
- Double Confession (1950)
- The Gambler and the Lady (1952)
- Johnny on the Run (1953)
- Adventure in the Hopfields (1954)
- The Million Pound Note (1954)
- Star of My Night (1954)
- Doctor in the House (1954)
- Betrayed (1954)
- To Dorothy a Son (1954)
- John and Julie (1955)
- Cast a Dark Shadow (1955)
- Lost (1956)
- Yield to the Night (1956)
- Loser Takes All (1956)
- Circus Friends (1956)
- It's Great to Be Young (1956)
- The Good Companions (1957)
- Stranger in Town (1957)
- Dunkirk (1958)
- A Cry from the Streets (1958)
- Count Your Blessings (1959)
- The Brides of Dracula (1960)
- Billy Liar (1963)
- Night Must Fall (1964)
- One Way Pendulum (1964)
- My Fair Lady (1964)
- Ferry Cross the Mersey (1965)
- The Collector (1965)
- The Third Day (1965)
- Two a Penny (1967)
- Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter (1968)
- If.... (1968)
- The Bed-Sitting Room (1969)
- The Games (1970)
- Fragment of Fear (1970)
- O Lucky Man! (1973)
- Identikit (1974)
- The Old Curiosity Shop (1975)
- The Blue Bird (1976)
- Stevie (1978)
- The London Connection (1979)
- Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story (1982)
External links
- Mona Washbourne at the Internet Movie Database
- Performances listed in the Theatre Archive University of Bristol
Categories:- 1903 births
- 1988 deaths
- English film actors
- English pianists
- English stage actors
- English television actors
- Actors from London
- People from Birmingham, West Midlands
- English actor stubs
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
